Ann Marie Thornburg received an MFA in poetry from the University of Michigan’s Helen Zell Writers’ Program, where she was also a Zell Postgraduate Fellow in poetry. Her poems appear inBoston Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, and harlequin creature. She was the recipient of a 2013 Human-Animal Studies Fellowship from the Animals & Society Institute and Wesleyan University, and a 2013 grant from the Culture & Animals Foundation.